Abstract Principles of Revealed Religion

Abstract Principles of Revealed Religion is a religious work attributed to Henry Drummond. Several writers named Henry Drummond were active in the nineteenth century. The Scottish biologist Henry Drummond (1851-1897) is the best known internationally for his popular religious work including The Greatest Thing in the World. An earlier Henry Drummond (1786-1860) was an English Member of Parliament and a major patron of the Catholic Apostolic Church that emerged from Edward Irving’s prophetic ministry.

The Abstract Principles work likely belongs to the earlier Drummond’s religious writing, which addressed the systematic theological questions that the Catholic Apostolic Church’s distinctive positions required. The book would set out the doctrinal principles that the church understood as central to its position within the broader nineteenth century English religious landscape.

For readers interested in nineteenth century English religious denominational literature, particularly the writings associated with the Catholic Apostolic Church or Irvingite movement, the work belongs to the substantial body of theological material that the movement produced.